Barrow says a few months have passed since the 'incident' of his suicide attempt. Yet the puppy given to Robert by his mother at the same time as the incident hasn't grown at all, he's still a puppy. Later we see him at Christmas almost a full grown dog.
When Lord and Lady Grantham enter Brancaster Castle, they look at the splendor as if for the first time. Lord Grantham says "You have to admit it's quite something." But Lord and Lady Grantham were at the castle the previous year when Lord and Lady Sinderby held the shoot. They were probably looking at it differently when they came back since the first time they came there they never expected that their daughter would one day own it.
Real life Alnwick Castle is depicted as Brancaster Castle for the final episode. In an exterior shot of the castle, the Flemish flag, not the British flag, is seen flying atop the keep.
Presumably, this is a nod to the designers of Alnwick Garden, Jacques and Peter Wirtz of Wirtz International, which is based in Schoten, a city in the Flemish region of Belgium.
Presumably, this is a nod to the designers of Alnwick Garden, Jacques and Peter Wirtz of Wirtz International, which is based in Schoten, a city in the Flemish region of Belgium.
When Lady Rose MacClare (now Mrs. Atticus Aldridge) arrives from the United States to Downton Abbey for Edith's wedding, she is wearing a very circa 1950s fur stole. A fur stole of that cut and style would not have existed in 1925.
When Thomas is leaving Carson tells him that no one has ever called him stupid. However when the family were at Brancaster when the Sinderbys rented it Daniel Sinderby called him a stupid fool. Since Carson wasn't there though it's possible that he didn't know.